Staten Island’s Voyage
Fifteen days after steaming out from Lyttelton the United States Navy icebreaker Staten Island has reached the Palmer Peninsula, where she is to conduct an exploratory survey to And * site for a permanent biologu cal station to be constructed in the 1963-64 operation::, year.
Report* received at the United States Navy Antarctic advance headquarters at Harewood yesterday say the Staten Island sailed into Marguerite Bay. Communication was established there with the British base on the Loubert Coast.
After having discussions with the party at the base the Staten Island left the bay early yesterday to begin it* surveying northward* up the western coast of the Palmer Peninsula.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30036, 22 January 1963, Page 15
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